Unboxious
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- Comment on No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset - Privacy Guides 22 hours ago:
It’s important to not allow “perfect” to become the enemy of “good”.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 08] 1 day ago:
I’ve seen somewhere before that Redline is another Gundam-like but with cars instead of mechs
I have no idea why anyone would say this. Gundam is about socio-political issues relating to space colonization and the horrors of war. Redline is about doing whatever is coolest at every moment. I cannot think of a single thing Redline has in common with Gundam, other than that the characters spend a lot of time sitting in cool machines. Anyways, I loved that movie. Redline is what showed me that it’s possible for a movie to be excellent while having the most basic plot imaginable.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 08] 1 day ago:
I’d argue that you would like this one if you dislike the typical harem stuff.
To an extent, yes. If what you dislike about harem stuff is the ecchiness of it though this definitely isn’t going to be a fun ride.
Btw, you’ve got good taste. We have a lot of overlaps in favourites.
It’s a small community so I’m glad we get along!
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 08] 1 day ago:
It really depends on what you like, but these have been my favorites from the last couple years:
- The Apothecary Diaries - Drama about a girl who gets kidnapped and becomes a lady-in-waiting for a high-ranking concubine, but really she just wants to make drugs. A hint of mystery and romance.
- Dan Da Dan - Sometimes it’s absolutely crazy paranormal combat involving yokai and aliens, sometimes it’s a well-written romance. Sometimes it’s both.
- The Elusive Samurai - A lot of other people didn’t care for this one because they didn’t care for a show that can rapidly switch between silly comedy stuff and brutal medieval Japanese history. It has amazing animation though, and I personally didn’t find the tonal shifts off-putting.
- Chainsaw Man - The perfect show for someone who wants to watch a teenage boy have a bad time. Lots of insane action and insane people.
- LOOK BACK - This one is a movie. It follows a pair of young artists, and is a bit of a heartwrencher. Same author as Chainsaw Man. Probably the best thing I saw in 2024, and that includes Delicious in Dungeon and Frieren.
- Bang Brave Bang Bravern! - Really funny action show about the gayest robot you’ll ever see.
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You - Honestly you probably know from the title if this is for you. If you like harem stuff, well, this is one of the craziest and best-written harem things out there.
- Skip and Loafer - This is the only TV show on this list I liked as much as I liked LOOK BACK. It follows a young girl who leaves her rural town to go to a fancy high-school in Tokyo. Equal parts coming of age, romance, and slice of life. The thing that really sets Skip and Loafer apart, at least to me, is the characters. This is the only anime I can think of where the characters feel like people rather than cartoon caricatures of people. Don’t get me wrong, I love my goofy anime goobers, but there’s something refreshing about watching a show that follows normal people who have normal problems and react to those problems in normal ways. Now that I’ve written it out like that I have no idea how the mangaka made such a thing interesting to watch/read but it works well. Season 2 airs later this year btw.
- BOCCHI THE ROCK! - An asocial guitarist joins a band. Probably my favorite “cute girls doing cute things” anime, though I also liked “A Place Further Than the Universe”.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury - This works as an entry point to the Gundam franchise, if you’re interested in giving that a try. Some students get drawn into corporate conflicts as they do their best to develop piloting and mechanical skills. This one really felt like it was originally meant to be 36 episodes but got cut down to 24; the second half is somewhat rushed unfortunately.
- Comment on The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 2 • Kimi no Koto ga Dai Dai Dai Dai Daisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo 2nd Season - Episode 6 discussion 2 days ago:
Excellent episode! Didn’t expect the Shaolin Soccer reference, but I really should have expected the Shaolin Soccer reference.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 07] 1 week ago:
Older shows that you haven’t mentioned and might be worth looking at would include Patlabor and Escaflowne.
I didn’t expect one of my favorite mech anime to be a shoujo isekai, but Escaflowne was just that good.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 07] 1 week ago:
The genre might be about big robots, but it is the human connection that makes us care about the story at the end of the day.
This is actually standard for the genre. Very few mecha shows are really about the robots; the robots are just there to add a bit of spice to the human drama.
Also, if you haven’t seen Gurren Lagann you’re missing out. It’s an all-time favorite of mine and is (in my opinion) a much better show than Evangelion.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 07] 1 week ago:
I also dislike the overly blocky mecha design. A very similar design to G1 Transformers, I just don’t like that style.
Come to think of it, you might like Gundam GQuuuuuux. It’s a collaboration between Studio Sunrise (Gundam) and Studio Khara (Evangelion). If you look at the staff list you’ll see some really amazing people there, including Hideaki Anno himself. It hasn’t been released yet, but the compilation film of the first 4 episodes should air soon in the US and the rest of the series is supposed to stream online later this year.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 07] 1 week ago:
Are there good modern mecha anime that match older anime like Super Dimension Fortress Macross or Neon Genesis Evangelion?
I’m having a hard time with this because I don’t think those shows even matched each other. What is it you liked about them that you don’t like about some of the newer stuff you’ve mentioned?
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 07] 1 week ago:
This week I got caught up on Witch Hat Atelier.
Read it. Seriously.
Witch Hat Atelier has the best, most unique art I’ve ever seen in a manga. I honestly don’t think any of the dozens of series I’ve read can even compete. It would be worth reading even if the story and characters were bad, but thankfully the story is good and the characters are extremely charming.
The anime will air later this year, and the trailer looks great, but I still implore everyone here to read it. This could be the next big thing, assuming the shounen-heads are willing to watch a show about a young girl instead of a spunky boi like Itadori or Tanjiro.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 07] 1 week ago:
…and that has definitely turned some people off through the series
It’s understandable. That scene with the vice principal in the second episode? Oh boy. The animation staff certainly ran wild with it. Probably one of the most cursed things to ever have graced my TV.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 07] 1 week ago:
This week I watched the first 9 episodes of The 100 Girlfriends who Really Really Really Really Really Love You. I’d already read the manga so I knew what to expect, but wow. This adaptation really cranked things up to eleven. I mean, the manga was basically already there but they took all of the best, worst, and most cursed scenes and just amplified the hell out of them. 10/10 adaptation. I really look forward to seeing what they do with a certain other character, though I worry I’ll have to wait until at least the third season to find out.
- Comment on Kingdom Manga Is Finally Getting An English Release By Viz Media 2 weeks ago:
That’s cool! How many decades you want to bet it takes the official English translation to catch up?
- Comment on Anime General Discussion Thread, Favorite Winter Season OP/ED Edition [2025, Week 06] 2 weeks ago:
This ED feels like you are browsing an artist’s past commissions rather than an animated ED.
I had to know what you meant by that and wow. As promised. Do the characters actually walk around like that in the show?
- Comment on Anime General Discussion Thread, Favorite Winter Season OP/ED Edition [2025, Week 06] 2 weeks ago:
I watched a small handful; here are my favorites:
- Bureaucrat to Villainess OP - The ED is nice too (I love the bit at the end with his family), but to me the OP is just full of charm.
- Hundred Girlfriends ED - That was just incredibly cute.
- Apothecary Diaries OP - I assume that much as the previous OP, this’ll hold a lot more significance once I’ve seen more than one episode of the season. In the meantime it’s a pleasant song with pleasant visuals.
- Apothecary Diaries ED - This one mostly stuck out because it’s so different from what I feel we usually get. I don’t even like it more than average, but I really appreciate it when they try something unusual. I feel like this happens a lot more with EDs than OPs.
- Medalist ED - It’s really cute, but not as cute as the Hundred Girlfriends ED if I’m being honest.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 06] 2 weeks ago:
This week I read Fire Punch. Can confirm, Fujimoto wasn’t any saner before Chainsaw Man. It was good, but I don’t think it was quite as good as Chainsaw Man. Still, I enjoyed it when it wasn’t busy making me feel sorry for the characters.
- Comment on Japan's Fair Trade Commission Announces Massive Investigation Into Anime Industry Abuse 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really expect anything to come of this, but it would be great if it led to better conditions for animators.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #04 - Winter 2025 (Anime Corner) 2 weeks ago:
How is I Have a Crush at Work so popular? Is anyone here keeping up with it? I watched the first episode and it didn’t seem that good.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #04 - Winter 2025 (Anime Corner) 2 weeks ago:
It definitely is trash, it’s just exquisitely crafted trash.
- Comment on [DISC] Skip and Loafer - Ch. 67 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t eat sweets so he got her soap
Very thoughtful! Also wow, poor Sousuke. We’ve had various glimpses of Sousuke’s family life, and it’s generally been negative, but seeing that his mom was so mean to him that she has a reputation in the industry for it really drives it home.
- Comment on Back to Glory 3 weeks ago:
The artist is gar32drawshit on Twitter.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 05] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve started a few new shows lately:
I have a Crush at Work - meh. I watched the first episode and dropped it.
Armored Trooper Votoms - I’ve watched two episodes so far. Hard to evaluate off of that, but I think I’ll keep watching a while longer.
Terror in Resonance - Pesky terrorists doing terrorist things. Why are they doing them? What is their goal? The show has dropped some vague hints, but so far it seems very unclear. It seems to want me to believe that nobody is being killed in these attacks even though there’s rubble falling onto sidewalks from dozens of feet in the air. I guess "a good terrorist doesn’t kill other people or something like that.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 05] 3 weeks ago:
P.S. I would totally watch 3rd Girl Fighter Wing if it’s an actual anime
They did a 1 episode OVA of it.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Premium Login Details Leaked; Users At High Risk 3 weeks ago:
Ugh, I signed up for Crunchyroll back in the day when I only used two or three passwords for everything instead of using a password manager. Welp, time to finally change a bunch of passwords I guess.
- Comment on Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury -- Dare I say... not "woke" enough!? 3 weeks ago:
Prospera is now having a picnic with Suletta and her keychain sister, despite the fact that she just wiped out an entire fleet and almost had both her daughters kill each other
That felt weird to me too. What is Prospera doing in anything but a prison? And she even still has a relationship with her daughters? At least let the rich face consequences in my fantasies!
- Comment on Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury -- Dare I say... not "woke" enough!? 3 weeks ago:
So far I think they’ve only announced a model for the GQuuuuuux itself, though others will doubtless follow. A few youtubers have gotten their hands on the kit, and impressions seem mostly positive. It looks like it’ll have great articulation, but some of the finer details will be achieved with stickers rather than increasing the number of plastic pieces. That isn’t unusual, and the stickers are decently nice so it’s not a huge deal, but it’s nice to not need to bother with them. Of course you can paint those parts instead, but there are plenty of people who won’t want to do that.
It’s actually been out in Japan for a few days now, so hopefully we’ll get some English reviews soon.
- Comment on Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury -- Dare I say... not "woke" enough!? 3 weeks ago:
I agree that this show got too complex for its own good. I’ve seen a lot of speculation that maybe it was originally intended to have more episodes and that’s why the second season felt so rushed.
As an aside, The Witch From Mercury has some of the best budget model kits Bandai has ever made. Something like the High Grade Aerial kit, which can be found for <$20 USD, would be a great choice if someone wanted to give building gunpla a try.
- Comment on [Discussion] Ubunchu! - Ch. 15 - Have you seen Ubuntu Touch!? 4 weeks ago:
Wow! Here I was thinking the 14 chapters I read were all that existed! Definitely did not wake up today expecting to read about Ubuntu Touch mockups and the unpopularity of Windows 8.
- Comment on [Discussion] Spy x Family - Chapter 110 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, maybe the older Desmond brother practices keeping his mind blank so that there’s nothing to be read; he is the one who suggested Donovan might have that ability after all.
- Comment on [Disc]What is/are your must watch anime/s? 5 weeks ago:
It’s hard to call something a “must watch” because different people like different genres. If we define “must watch” as something every fan of the genre should watch, my list would be Redline, Gurren Lagann, LOOK BACK, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, and Skip and Loafer.